>Hi Tom,
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>You know, you are right.
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>I started this adventure with programming with COBOL and Fortran, then Pascal, then dBase and Foxbase+, then I was involved with COBOL and 3 tiered banking systems (UI in C, middle tier COBOL -the most portable language in mainframes, minis and PCs- and the data tier was ISAM COBOL files, Btrieve or the Database of choice of the Mainframe, plain text to pass data betw tiers) and returned years after that to FoxPro 2.0 and I loved it. Then VFP3, etc...
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>I don't think I regret missing VB enterely although I can do things with it, but the .NET thing is looking pretty good, I think that for Web development it's going to be a revolution...
>I'm going to devote my time on it, now, as Maria my wife was studying Java at Berkeley I got a taste of it, it is pretty good but kind of slow. VB.NET and C# are very much Java copies.
>VB or C#?, that is the question, I like the later. What do you think?
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>Max


Max;

I have done a good deal of C programming and that is my favorite language. However, to be productive I prefer VFP. :) As for the .NET question, it will take some time to have answers to questions that have not been asked. The technology is too new and we have to see where it goes and why. Will it be ASP .NET, or VB .NET?

As far as languages I prefer C# although I am working with both C# and VB .NET. A year from now that may change. :) I have done some Java work and although I like Java I do not see a market of interest to me using that language. The .COM craze was an illness that I avoided. I called it .BOMB!

One think for sure - I do not want to go back to writing Assembler code. Talk about a "black hole"!

Tom

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>>I have attempted to use a few ActiveX components with Visual FoxPro that could not be implemented as they function in Visual Basic. Hopefully, that is not the case anymore! :) Well, I am still of the belief that not everything can be run from within Visual Foxpro. When I “hit the wall” I change tools.
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>>Sorry if I have offended any of the “gods” but such is life!
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>>Tom